First of all: DO NOT BECOME A DENTAL ASSISTANT. It is a complete scam job-you will pay $4,000 to get certified to make $15/hour with no benefits and get treated like garbage no matter how good of an Assistant you are. This school was nothing short of a disaster. The "educators" couldn't have cared less about the students. They were rude (one teacher told a student in front of the class that she looked pregnant-she was not.) I learned absolutely nothing in this program. When I got out into the field I was completely unprepared. There was a huge focus on learning how to perform a Full Series set of XRays. This is something that a Hygienist performs. Rarely is it done in my office by an Assistant. I have never had to do one in the year and half that I have been with my office. There were multiple classes where the educators "didn't have enough" materials for us all to practice our Lab tests. They also made us use broken equipment and we were made to reuse the same temporary mold that had been used 30+ times and were expected to make a temporary out of it-and be graded on the results. The teachers were rude, condescending, insulting and just genuinely not happy to be there. The scrubs that we got with the program were absolutely disgusting. They were the cheapest quality available and they had their dental assisting logo stitched onto them so even if you wanted to use them in the future, you couldn't. We were promised Head Shots which I never received after they were taken. The website that we had to use for the majority of our 9 week program for all of our testing and homework had constant glitches and was terrible to try and navigate with tons of errors. During my timed final exam I was trying to perform an FMX with a broken rinn piece and out of frustration and stress I asked one of the nicer educators if I could at least get equipment that wasn't broken considering I spent my $4,000 to get my certification here, and another young educator completely freaked out on me! She was yelling up and down the halls, threatening me and acting like absolute trash all while disrupting everyone else. She was pulled into another room and kept there for the remainder of the exam but I was never apologized to, the educator that spoke to me after was attempting to blame me for the error and said I was simply not performing the procedure correctly and that the problem wasn't with the BROKEN equipment. I reported this to the higher ups and was then disqualified from participating in a review of the program. We were promised gift cards if we secured a job-I never received mine. Our online business advisor changed TWICE during my 9 week program and was never responsive to mine or other students questions and concerns with the website issues. Everyone I talked to in my program was equally upset about the way we were being treated. If you are dead set on a career as a Dental Assistant, don't waste your money getting certified. Nobody cares at all about you having your RAD certification when hiring. They will take you off the street with no certification and teach you because nobody wants to work for $14/hour. It is grueling work, unsafe and degrading. I wish someone would have warned me before I wasted all the money but since they didn't, I feel that I have to discourage anyone who is considering this program. read more